Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon.

Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.